PT-2016-2475 · Google · Android

Published 2016-07-11 · Updated 2016-07-11 · CVE-2016-3743

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2016-07-01

Description The issue is related to the decoder/ih264d api.c file in the mediaserver of the Android operating system, which does not initialize certain data structures correctly. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted media file.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-07-01, update the operating system to a version released after 2016-07-01 to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2016-01866

CVE-2016-3743

Affected Products

Android

References · 8

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3743 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3743 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01866 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/libavc/+/ecf6c7ce6d5a22d52160698aab44fc234c63291a · Note